BT Vision is currently offering their Vision+ box to all new customers absolutely free. Simply order either the bronze, silver or gold value packs (all available at a discounted prices for the first 3 months) online before September 18th 2009, and you will receive the BT Vision+ box, worth £45, absolutely gratis.

The BT Vision Box -

Offers crystal clear High Definition picture and sound.

Pause, rewind and record TV

Records and stores up to 80 hours of Freeview TV

160GB hard drive.

Works as a Freeview set-top box

Plus if you get your skates on, you can take advantage of the BT Total Broadband 3 months free offer which ends Friday 4th September 2009. Another great money saving offer from BT.

BT Total Broadband is offering customers across the UK the chance to boost their connection speeds to up to 20Mbs, for free, with their brand new booster pack called BT Broadband Accelerator. The pack, worth £15, will be free to BT Total Broadband customers who order it online, with only the £1.20 postage to be paid. The ‘I-Plate’ is inserted into the main telephone socket and helps stabilise the broadband line by isolating a redundant wire, thus reducing the amount of electrical interference that can cut broadband speed by 1.5Mb.

The easy to install plate comes with a simple instruction manual, as well as a great 10 step guide on how to optimise broadband speeds. Faster speeds will initially be available to 40% of the UK’s homes, with coverage increasing to 55% by March next year. BT broadband customers with the plate installed in enabled areas will now see speeds of up to 20Mb/s, with upload speeds increasing by almost double.

Plus, by adding the Broadband Accelerator to their current 3 months free broadband offer which ends on 4th September 2009, it’s easy to see why more and more people are choosing BT Total broadband.

BT Total broadband are offering 3 months absolutely free when you sign up to their phone and internet bundle package with a phone line on an 18 month contract. The ‘Get Connected’ broadband package features -

Up to 8Mb download speeds

10GB monthly usage

250 WiFi broadband minutes a month

Basic security

Free BT Home Hub

Unlimited calls to UK landlines at evenings and weekends

Phone line rental is £11.25 a month, with the broadband price of £15.65 after the first 3 months. You can even test your local connection speeds for BT Total Broadband by clicking here.

BT business broadband are about to let millions of businesses enjoy a free broadband boost with the news that they are about to more than double their headline speeds for business customers. Users in enabled areas can now enjoy speeds of up to 20Mbs instead of 8Mbs at no extra cost.

The faster speeds will be available for up to 40% of UK businesses, with plans to extend the coverage to 55% by March 2010. This new service will enable several users on the same connection to upload or download data in a fraction of the time, which is good news for businesses looking to boost their websites. BT Business will now be offering the BT Broadband Accelerator that eliminates electrical interference from telephone-extension wiring, which improves speed and reliability.

Managing Director of BT Business, Bill Murphy, said -

Unlike other providers, BT is upgrading businesses to 20Mb/s for free. High-speed broadband provides a faster and more reliable service that will transform the way UK firms work and compete, at the time they need it most. In line with the Government?s Digital Britain review, we will be making higher speeds more widely available.

The BT Business Total Broadband tariff will remain the same price for the 20Mbs service as the 8Mbs. BT Business is also currently trialling a 40Mb/s super-fast fibre-based broadband in various locations across the UK this summer, with plans to one day deliver speeds of up to 100Mbs using ‘fibre to the premise’ (FTTP) technology.

BT total broadband and Starbucks coffee houses have joined forces to offer customers Wi-Fi alongside their lattes and pastries across their 650 UK cafes. This is great news for the 4.6 million BT home broadband and Openzone customers, who will have free access to the web alongside iPhone customers.

The WiFi system will be fully operational in all 650 cafes by the end of the summer, though non BT customers will have to sign up and pay for the service.

Chief executive of BT Openzone, Chris Bruce, said -

Use of our Wi-Fi doubled last year and coffee shops are increasingly popular as a third place to work or log on to the internet.

This is great news for BT total broadband customers, who can not only log on for free at Starbucks but can now also receive 1GB of free wireless internet usage with their home package via a free USB stick. Great times to be a BT customer!

BT Total Broadband is now offering a brand new provider package which will allow users to surf the net both home and away for just over £15 a month – the cheapest in the UK. Users will now be able to connect to the internet using BT’s USB modem, which allows 8Mbps wireless broadband in addition to 1GB of free mobile broadband surfing each month at connection speeds of up to 7.2Mbps.

This data allowance will be enough to send up to 300 emails and nearly 7 hours of web browsing for free every month. Those who have the need for a larger monthly usage will be able to top up their levels at £10 per extra 1GB.

Managing director of BT’s consumer division, John Petter, said -

This is an absolutely fantastic deal, the most complete home and mobile broadband for only 56p a day is a no-brainer. Now you can use broadband wherever you are without worrying about the cost. You can use mobile broadband on the train, in the coffee shop or in the park for all the things you go online for, to look at your emails, check the football results, or watch Britain’s Got Talent star, Susan Boyle on YouTube.

Orange Broadband plan to up their fixed broadband service to 20Mbps to a select few customers for the same price as their 8Mbps service. Orange is looking to test the stability and performance of its new network bandwidth before offering it to the rest of their customers.

Orange’s director of broadband, Asif Aziz, said –

This trial is an important step in enabling us to offer up to 20 Meg home broadband to consumers across our network.

This major upgrade to the Orange broadband service is seen as the largest improvement to their fixed internet service to date, and is in line with Ofcom giving BT Total Broadband the green light for their £1.5 billion next-generation network.

BT Total Broadband has announced their chosen sites in London and South Wales to trial its new fibre-optic broadband. London’s Muswell Hill and Whitchurch in Wales will be the focus of attention next summer and will provide customers with headline speeds of up to 40 Mbps.

BT Broadband has already announced plans to roll out fibre-based, super-fast broadband to as many as 10 million homes by 2012, with its £1.5 billion programme promising to deliver top speeds of up to 100 Mbps.

There is even talk of potential speeds of more than 1,000 Mbps in the future!

At the moment most broadband is delivered via copper wires giving customers headline speeds of around 8Mbs, but upgrading these wires to fibre-optic cables would increase speeds hugely This would mean faster downloads and give customers the ability to talk via video links whilst internet downloading and watching movies on high-definition TV.

Ofcom has taken the lead in encouraging this new technology with proposals to make it easier and more attractive for firms to invest in rolling-out fibre-optic technology. Virgin Media has launched its super-fast broadband service with speeds of 50 Mbs, allowing users to download an entire music album in 11 seconds, a TV show in a minute and a film in under 4 minutes.

The BT Total Broadband free hub offer unfortunately came to a close on 18th September. But never fear, a brand new free offer has taken its place!

As of Friday 19th September, customers will still be able to utilise the free Hub offer, only now it will be the new Hub 2.0. The new black Hub is BT’s most advanced yet, and offers up to twice the wireless range of any other UK broadband provider. The set up is simplicity itself, has a brand new powersave function, all wrapped up it BT’s latest iconic design.

With purse strings currently tightening across the country, consumers are demanding more value for their money, which is why BT are trying to give their customers that little bit extra.

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